Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:33:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:33:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:21714 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:33:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3E7230D2.7010309@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:43:14 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Subject: Re: Kernel setup() and initrd problems References:

<3E722D31.6050702@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <3E722D31.6050702@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 21 Chris Friesen wrote: > > Below is the script that I used to pivot from a standard ramdisk (for with > the infrastructure is already in place in our build environment) to a tmpfs > filesystem. This requires no changes to the boot args. > > This script runs as /sbin/init, sets up the tmpfs filesystem, pivots, and > hands off control to the real init program. > ... which means that you either have boot args or rdev so that /dev/ram0 is the root filesystem (or it wouldn't work.) -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/